Akshay Murthy

Responsibilities Relationship Management:

• Built close relationships with Eastman Core business technology personnel, Global Product Stewardship & Regulatory Affairs colleagues, Trade Associations and/or NGOs

Project leadership:

• Developed and implemented SAP templates, processes and systems that increased efficiency and quality of deliverables.
• Developed SharePoint for Eastman Global Product stewardship team and also integrated Customer Inquires Management into Salesforce
• Collaborate and extend in proactive, strategic relationships with external stakeholders R&D, Marketing, Procurement other stakeholders in continuous implementation, training and improvement of Product Stewardship and in optimizing regulatory compliance tools and processes into our organization
• Contributed to group projects by offering proposed solutions to problems and methods to accomplish the goals of the Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs Group
• Co-ordinated with IT in the development work on SAP Report Generation Variants (RGV) and SAP Report Templates (SBV)
• Ensure strategies are developed to mitigate impact or take advantage of new regulations & requirements for compliance by coordinating with global Product Stewards, external consultants
• Led the upgrade of Labeling system across the organization, Integrated GLM > 60 sites including Joint ventures across the globe in 1.5 years
• Co-ordinated the GHS SDS and Label compliance projects across different functions
• Contributed directly in system enhancement and development projects to maintain compliance with ever changing global hazard communication regulations and related regulatory requirements

Regulatory understanding:

• Serve as subject matter expert on HC regulations such as the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS)
• Proactively involved in regulatory label interpretations and implementation of newly developed countries Contributed to group projects by offering proposed solutions to problems and methods to accomplish the goals of the Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs Group such as California proposition 65, TSCA, China CN class information, Japan FSL, Korea DSSMA, UFI PCN project and EU Annex XVII restricted substance Accountable for coordinating, monitoring, and managing operations while maintaining all safety and compliance regulations for EU Poison centre notification
• Monitor and communicate international, national regulations in addition to proposed regulations that are relevant to the Coatings & Inks, Care chemicals, Specialty plastics, Specialty fluids & energy
• Identify Industrial specific regulations by doing the product registration per BU requirements, and in compliance with the required regulations
• Interpret and communicate changes in regulations that could potentially affect the Coatings & Inks, Care chemicals, Specialty plastics, Specialty fluids & energy business
• Support REACH like regulatory advocacy activities such as India REACH (ICMSR) and K- REACH

Customer Inquiries and Communication:

• Facilitate external communication of regulatory topics by answering specific regulatory questions to our customers via Eastman’s Customer Inquiry Management system, and business and technology partners

• Classify products for transportation according to 49CFR, ADR, TDG and IATA Determine Dangerous goods information and classify based on transport regulations parameter Managing storage regulated products Mentoring specialists and reviewers within the team Collaborating with counterparts on process improvements and reviews

• SDS authoring for DuPont Performance Chemicals & Performance Polymers (AP/ US Regions) Creating and maintaining process metrics and presenting it to the DuPont PS&R Asia pacific Leadership Handling end to end process of a PSR and Hazard communication role for multiple projects individually Assessment of toxicology and eco-toxicological data as per GHS guideline for classification of pure substances and mixtures Trainer for GHS, Asia pacific country regulations, SDS and labels creation to the new hires under hazard communication team Handling customer queries, Keep up with the changing regulatory requirements to proactively ensure the chemical regulatory compliance of DuPont products Driving meetings with customers to discuss about project statistics and material